DOH: More vaccines are required

The state Dept of Health is out with new vaccine regulations for kids. They aren’t requiring any new vaccines but more doses in some cases will be needed.

Here are the details:

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) announced it has revised immunization requirements for school attendance to meet updated national standards. The updated requirements, which do not add any new vaccines for school entry, but update the number of doses required and the minimum intervals between doses, go into effect today, July 1, 2014.

The changes were made so that New York’s immunization requirements are consistent with the most current childhood and adolescent immunization recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). ACIP is a group of medical and public health experts that develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to control diseases in the U.S. These recommendations are intended to help reduce the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases.

“Immunizations protect children from serious childhood diseases, like whooping cough and measles, and have an excellent track record of safety and effectiveness,” said Acting State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D. “I encourage parents to talk to their children’s healthcare provider and work with their school’s health services to ensure that all immunizations are up-to-date.”

Because of the success of vaccines in preventing disease, parents may not have heard of some of today’s vaccines or the serious diseases they prevent. These diseases can be especially serious for young children. That is why it is important to follow the recommended immunization schedule to protect children by providing immunity early in life, before they are exposed to potentially life-threatening diseases.

Vaccine-preventable diseases still circulate in the U.S. and around the world, so continued vaccination is necessary to protect people from potential outbreaks. Even when diseases are rare in the U.S., they can be brought into the country by infected individuals, putting unvaccinated people at risk.

New School Immunization Requirements

The new requirements, which apply to daycare, head start, nursery, pre-kindergarten and grades kindergarten through 12, represent the continued effort to protect students from vaccine-preventable diseases. The changes mark the first update to school immunization requirements in over a decade, and include:

· Students entering kindergarten or 6th grade in the 2014-2015 school year will now be required to have two doses of the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine and 3-5 doses of poliomyelitis vaccine. The updated varicella and polio vaccination requirements will be phased in over the next seven years and will be required for all grades by the 2020-2021 school year.
· For all other required vaccines, students in day care, head start, nursery, pre-kindergarten and grades kindergarten through 12 will be required to have age-appropriate doses in accordance with the ACIP schedule.
· A student who is in process is defined as one who has had the first dose of vaccine in all of the required immunization series and has appointments to complete the series in accordance with the ACIP catch up schedule. See http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/child-adolescent.html. A student who is in process must be allowed to attend school.
· Students may present proof of immunity by serology (blood test) for the following immunizations: measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, varicella, and poliomyelitis.
· Medical exemptions to immunizations must be reissued annually. The written exemption must identify the immunization exempted, the medical contraindication for the exemption, and the length of time the immunization is contraindicated. A sample medical exemption form is available at http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/schools.
· Any child who has been vaccinated according to the ACIP recommendations, which are followed by most health care providers, should not need further vaccinations in order to attend day care or school.

More detailed information, including an immunization chart outlining the new requirements for the 2014-2015 school year, frequently asked questions regarding the school immunization regulations and a webinar presented by DOH staff reviewing the updated school immunization regulations are available at DOH’s Immunization website: http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/schools/updated_school_imm_requirements.htm.

Rick Karlin

6 Responses

Sorry, Dr. Sherman K. Wisely doesn’t take orders from “groups of medical and public health experts” or the NYS Department of Health Commissioner with regard to what I put into my body, or with regard to how I choose to raise my children. Dr. Wisely and his children are vaccine free and my medical history is NONE OF YOUR BIZ. #eugenics #tyranny #overeachingauthority

I know a young mother who is so afraid of vaccines, from all the propaganda, that she refuses to have her daughter vaccinated. The kid is a nice young girl; I hope she survives to adulthood without getting herself killed or killing other children. I remember polio, chickenpox, mumps and measles.

You wrote here are the details the. Copy pasted a press release. How about asking who is the trade lobby that pushes these profit boosting atandards, what is the opposing research showing any sort of disinclination. Instead we will get the conspiracy chatter pro and anti vaccine without any meaningful infortion in the screaming.
For me it is deadly simple, I have to QUESTION the propriety of a group that profits in a proud collusion with government (collusion is AKA open conspiracy). While totally immune from any liability for the damage of their products.
Its not about being anti vaccine. Its about asking the basic questions. Everything in medicine is supposed to be informed consent, except this. And don’t foist that idiocy of herd immunity, if you want to trust blindly, go for it. I do what reporters use to do, ask questions.

60%, at least, of Doctors and Nurses refuse to take vaccines, themselves.

That is, the majority of them will not personally participate. Why does
one suppose that is the case? What do they know?

If your Family has been so inoculated, then according to you, and your
conclusions in getting so-jabbed, they are protected and immune from the
corresponding malady against which you, and they, have been inoculated.

Is that not so? Well is it?

Then mind your own business about how the rest of us choose to live our
lives, won’t you. Good.

Wonder if they will track the Autism rate increase as a result? More vaccines, higher autism rates and no correlation? Only because the medical community doesn’t track/record reactions to the shots – plausible deniability! (heard of one case for a FACT)